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Metal By Numbers 11/11: Fate’s Warning

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.

It looks like Interscope made out by luring Escape the Fate away from Epitaph, as they have the top metal debut of the week. The 18,500 they sold isn’t bad, but when you consider that Taylor Swift literally sold 20% of all the albums bought last week, it seems a little distant, even if ETF look slightly prettier than Ms. Swift. That said, it was a pretty weak week for metal debuts.

Notable Debuts:

Escape The Fate, Escape The Fate (Interscope) #24, 18,500 sold
They might have escaped the fate of not having the biggest metal debut of the week. However, they certainly didn’t escape the fate of looking like d-bags on their album cover.

Various Artists, Punk Goes Pop, Vol. 3 (Fearless) #26, 18,000 sold
Ever wonder what it would sound like if second rate emo bands performed pop songs by the likes of Katy Perry and Jason Derulo? We’re thinking lots and lots of autotune.

Memphis May Fire, Between the Lies (Bullet Tooth) 750 sold
This band sells about 750 copies of their EP. Not bad for these guys.

Notable Sales:

Linkin Park, A Thousand Suns(Warner Bros.) #30, 16,100 sold
This doesn’t really count as metal anymore, and with under 500,000 sold in two months, that’s as close to this band has come to a flop.

Disturbed, Asylum (Reprise) #57, 8,300 sold
These guys are pretty much recession-proof. They sold about the same as last week and have sold more than 350,000 in 10 weeks.

Avenged Sevenfold, Nightmare(Warner Bros.) #68, 6,200 sold
Also holding steady at about the same as last week.

All That Remains For We Are Many (Prosthetic/Razor & Tie) #73, 5,900 sold
A pretty modest 15% decline in their fourth week.

Five Finger Death Punch, War is the Answer (Prospect Park) #79, 5,200 sold
This album’s been on the charts for 59 weeks straight and went up in sales this week,

Godsmack, Oracle (Universal) #96, 4,350 sold
Seriously, there’s almost 400,000 of you that bought this album so far, but who really likes Godsmack?

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